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Joint Public Policy And Legacy Governance in Paris 2024: The Case of Paris And Seine-Saint-Denis Partnership
This study examines interorganizational relationship (IOR) in the run-up to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, focusing on the partnership between Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis. The objective is to analyze how individual and shared public policies are jointly developed to pursue legacy objectives. Using an IOR theoretical lens, we assess the extent to which the aligned goals and joint structures have shaped cooperation between these two territories. The analysis draws on twenty-three semi-structured interviews conducted between 2021 and 2023 with public and Olympic stakeholders, alongside eight policy documents covering individual and joint public policies. Findings reveal that the partnership is not merely symbolic: it reflects a strategically coordinated effort to leverage the Games for long-term impacts, such as urban and social legacy. Moreover, this collaboration demonstrates how mega-events can act as catalysts for integrated public policy development beyond the event itself.
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World Investment and Political Risk 2010
Political risk remains the top preoccupation for foreign investors operating in developing countries over the next three years, in spite of persistent concerns over the global downturn in the short term. The global economic recession triggered by the financial crisis that has unfolded over the past two years has not spared the developing world. Yet, the fragile and modest recovery now under way is being led by developing countries, which are expected to remain attractive destinations for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In light of overt political risk perceptions, the revival of FDI to these destinations calls for continued risk mitigation, including Political Risk Insurance (PRI). In the short term, concerns over the fallout from the financial crisis appear to dominate investors' preoccupations. Yet, FDI projections and surveys conducted for this report suggest that investors are cautiously optimistic about prospects for a global economic recovery led by the developing world. As a result, FDI to developing countries is expected to recover over the medium term. Investors from the primary industries, as well as those based in developing countries, appear particularly bullish in their investment intentions. As concerns over the health of the global economy recede, political risk considerations will return to pre-eminence for investors from both developed and developing countries.
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Investing with confidence : understanding political risk management in the 21st century
'Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management in the 21st Century' is the latest book in a series based on the MIGA–Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management. The most recent symposium brought together almost 200 senior practitioners from the political risk insurance (PRI) industry, including investors, insurers, brokers, lenders, academics, and members of the legal community. This volume addresses the key issues relevant for investors today, including arbitration, understanding and pricing for risk, and new developments in investments through timely assessments from 15 experts in the fields of international investment, finance, insurance, law, and academia. Contributors to this volume examine key political risk issues including claims and arbitration, perspectives on pricing from private, public and multilateral providers, and explore new frontiers in sovereign wealth funds and Islamic finance. The volume begins with a look back to the founding of International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and MIGA and the respective visions for both of these important institutions. It continues with a review of new developments in global finance and risk management, including Islamic finance and sovereign wealth funds, and provides an investor perspective of what drives the decision making process on procuring political risk insurance. The volume then turns to consider methodologies of pricing from the private, public, and multilateral perspectives, and examines the expropriation and the pledge of shares. This section focuses on key legal questions such as understanding expropriation and the outcome of arbitration hearings, the latter being particularly relevant given the number of cases currently before arbitral panels. The volume concludes with an overview of the key thoughts raised by the authors and the implications for investors going forward. 'Investing with Confidence' offers valuable insights for practitioners and investors alike and is particularly relevant in today's uncertain markets.
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CAN WE HAVE TRUST IN HOST GOVERNMENT? SELF-ESTEEM, WORK ATTITUDES AND PREJUDICE OF LOW-STATUS EXPATRIATES LIVING IN CHINA
The paper aims to investigate whether trust in
a host government can mitigate the negative effects
caused by the social complexities facing low-status
expatriates (LSEs) living in China. It models trust in host
government as a mediator in the relationship between
expatriates’ perception of status-based prejudice and their
work attitudes; it further outlines the role of self-esteem
in this relationship. The study seeks to expand knowledge
in the domain of expatriate management by explaining the
prejudicial behavior of host country towards low-status
expatriates. Structural equation modelling was used to
analyze responses from LSEs in China. The results
provide the evidence that perceived discrimination
negatively affects expatriates’ work attitudes and suggest
that trust in the host government can mediate such
effects. Self-esteem is found to be a significant moderator
in the relationship. With this, the study empirically affirms
social categorization theory, showing it to be a powerful
lens through which LSE adaptability can be the behavior
of host nationals towards low-status expatriates and can
be further developed with regard to the adaptability of
low-status expatriates.
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Fiscal systems for hydrocarbons : design issues
Optimize hydrocarbon revenue with effective fiscal system design.This working paper provides a comprehensive analysis of fiscal systems for hydrocarbons, offering guidance for governments and investors alike.
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Multinational Companies and the Cultural Industries: W.H. Smith in Canada, 1950–1989
The political hazards that host country governments pose multinational companies are multifaceted and persistent. This study focuses on the experience of the Canadian subsidiary of British retailer W.H. Smith and Son in order to examine how host country policy can influence a multinational operating in the cultural industries. While bargaining models have previously provided the principal analytical lens for analyzing the interaction between multinationals and host governments, I argue that such frameworks lack the necessary nuance in order to explain fully the interaction between the Canadian government and W.H. Smith. In order to address the intricacy of these relations, it is necessary to integrate insights from new institutional economics with conventional bargaining frameworks.
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Resource financed infrastructure
This report, consisting of a study prepared by global project finance specialists Hunton and Williams LLP and comments from six internationally reputed economists and policy makers, provides an analytical discussion of resource financed infrastructure (RFI) contracting from a project finance perspective. The report is meant as a forum for in-depth discussion and as a basis for further research into RFI's role, risks, and potential, without any intention to present a World Bank, supported view on RFI contracting. It is motivated by the conviction that if countries are to continue to either seeks RFI or receive unsolicited RFI proposals, there is an onus on public officials to discern bad deals from good, to judge unavoidable trade-offs, and to act accordingly. The report aims to provide a basis for developing insights on how RFI deals can be made subject to the same degree of public policy scrutiny as any other instrument through which a government of a low or lower-middle-income country might seek to mobilize development finance. The report also feeds into the global mainstreaming of 'open contracting,' providing citizens with the means to engage with governments and other stakeholders on how nonrenewable resources are best managed for the public benefit. In the case of RFI, there is a very direct link made between the value of resources in the ground and the development of (infrastructure) benefits. It should not be a surprise, therefore, that the revised Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Standard, adopted in May 2013, addresses extractive transactions with an infrastructure component, including RFI.
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Evaluation of Tanap Agreements in Terms of International Law and Expropriation Law
Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project (TANAP) is a project, between Azerbaijan and Turkey, on the World's front burner realized in order to transport the natural gas produced from the Şahdeniz 2 field to Europe through Turkish territory. Legal details of TANAP are included in the Intergovernmental Agreement (IA) between two states and in the Hosting Government Agreement (HGA) signed between Turkey and TANAP Project Company. Having looked at the aforesaid agreements, IA is mainly considered as an outline agreement, on the other hand, HGA is considered as a private law contract including more detailed provisions. TANAP Agreements, having the characteristics of a bilateral investment agreement, include provisions mostly protecting the interests of the investor, namely Azerbaijan. Considering either participating interests of parties in the project, or that the source country is Azeri land, it should be admitted that the situation is natural and legal.
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Old risks-new solutions, or is it the other way around?
Events like the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), Georgetown symposium demonstrate that there is much to be learned through the sharing of experiences and thinking together about the critical issues that confront our industry as well as new products and ideas. MIGA opened a new Asian hub in Singapore with underwriters in Hong Kong SAR, China and business development staff in Beijing and Tokyo. This hub aims to capitalize on Asian emerging as a new center of outbound investment growth. We have seen a growing base of investors in China as well as other Asian countries looking to go into the challenging market. MIGA also opened a business development office in Paris, which will focus on new business opportunities in Europe as well as the Middle East and North Africa. We view both of these hubs as providing an excellent opportunity for MIGA to support the economic growth of low-income countries through providing the support to South-South investments. Providing political risk insurance (PRI) for outbound investment from the rich and other middle-income countries has become more important as the level of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) growth from these countries has increased.
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